After Abbott Deal Collapses, GE Unlikely To Seek Similar-Sized Dx Buy This Year

Jul 18, 2007

This story originally appeared in Biocommerce Week, a newsletter that has been discontinued.

A couple of days after announcing that has pulled out of its planned $8.1 billion acquisition of two of Abbott’s diagnostics divisions, GE officials suggested during a conference call that it was highly unlikely that the firm would make any acquisitions this year costing more than $2 billion.

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